Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...responses of two panelists who opposed the court-ordered remedy shed light on arguments against judicial remedies, and are grounded in assumptions, that the court is activist and insensitive to the claims of those who must bear the burden of court-ordered decrees...
...same breath, however, she criticized the Yonkers decision as activist and in opposition to the original intent of the "straightforward and simple" civil rights laws of the 1960s...
...Turner persistently -- and with no hard evidence to back up his claims -- warned that ratification of free trade would lead to U.S. and Canadian pressure to reduce Canada's comprehensive system of medicare and generous old-age pensions. Other opponents of free trade, many of them organized in the activist coalition known as the Pro-Canada Network, published a pamphlet that featured cartoons of, among other things, Mulroney pledging allegiance in front of the Stars and Stripes. A pro-Mulroney heckler who showed up at a Turner rally in Montreal was beaten bloody, an incident that shocked...
When Frank E. Lockwood '89 ran for Undergraduate Council chair last month, he demanded a more liberal, activist council, calling on the student government to take stands on campus political issues...
Also convicted of treason was the Rev. Thomas Manthatha, an activist in an area called the Vaal Triangle south of Johannesburg where the first wave of unrest erupted in September...